Seize the Play Creativity Workshop

Schedule

Fri Dec 19 2025 at 11:00 am to 02:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

The Bazaar on Apricot & Lime | Sarasota, FL

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Unleash your creative super-power in this "in real life" workshop designed to help you boost innovation and reclaim creative focus!
About this Event

Workshop Overview

Creativity is a critical component of any thriving business. Innovation solves problems and propels growth. What if fun could make you flourish? Join award-winning game designer, author and filmmaker Tim Walsh for this hands-on, 3-hour creativity workshop that offers both fun and FUNctional creative improvement.

What's Included!

Your ticket includes lunch at Hamlet’s Eatery on site and a copy of Right Brain Red: 7 Ideas for Creative Success, the book Tim wrote with Reyn Guyer, Grammy® winner and leader of the teams who designed the NERF® line toys and the Twister® game.

Learning Objectives

  • Leverage PLAY (divergent thought) and PRACTICALITY (convergent thought)to create breakthroughs
  • Find FLOW and reclaim your focus
  • Build the most conducive conditions for creativity
  • Gamify your processes to increase novel ideas
  • Collaborate to ideate more effectively
  • Translate it all into an actionable game plan

This is a hands-on workshop dense with content, activities, creative exercises, and includes a detailed follow up PDF with action steps, emailed to each participant after the event.

Why Attend?

  • You feel “blocked” creatively
  • You lack focus and fun in your work
  • You want real connection, not a-n-o-t-h-e-r online course or video
  • You know your best creative work has yet to emerge
  • You have critical problems to solve and don’t know where to start
  • You want FUNctional solutions for your lack of creativity
  • You're creative and focused, but just want to get a little better!

Creator | Facilitator Profile:

Tim Walsh is an award-winning toy and game designer, author, filmmaker and speaker. His books, Timeless Toys (Andrews-McMeel) and WHAM-O Super-Book (by Chronicle Books) were praised by The Wall Street Journal and NPR. Tim co-produced the film Toyland, with director Ken Sons, which premiered at the Sarasota Film Festival. The film went one to win Best Documentary awards at three US film festivals. In 2016, he co-produced and co-directed OPERATION: Operation The Power of Play with Peggy Brown. The film shares the amazing story of John Spinello, the inventor of the classic game Operation. The film won best documentary and the top prize for best film at the 2017 Naperville Independent Film Festival. Tim's appeared on numerous TV and radio shows including NPR’s All Things Considered, and regularly on The History Channel’s hit show The Toys That Built America.

Tim facilitates creativity workshops based on play whenever he can and has dedicated many of this own creative projects to the promotion of other designers.

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Where is it happening?

The Bazaar on Apricot & Lime, 821 Apricot Avenue, Sarasota, United States

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Tickets

USD 75.00

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